Hi devs, coming back with a fourth solution for this problem, described here: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/AnnotationFeature#HSolution4addannotationsonspecifiedbutoptionaltargetrenderedbyaspecializedrenderer
based on leaving the annotation rendering job to a specialized renderer depending on the format in which we want to render (an extension of the default renderer for that format). It also provides an incremental approach to solving the optional features desired for annotations. We really hope this solution is final, as we should start implementing something by now. WDYT? Any blocker in the vision described there? Also, with this solution being slightly complex and the delay caused by converging to it, the roadmap should be delayed by 2 weeks, to the end december / mid january. If we prefer to have a working version of the annotations as they are right now (with serious limitations in what concerns the annotated content and quality of UX), we could move UI stabilization (test js, cleanup the xwiki annotations application, etc) closer and add the annotation module on the platform to be released / used. WDYT? Thanks for your involvement, Anca On 10/30/2009 05:21 PM, Anca Luca wrote: > Hi devs, > > following a discussion with Fabio about the second desired feature for > the annotations, namely the ability to add annotations on any document, > no matter how its content is generated, we came up with the solution > described at > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Design/AnnotationFeature#HSolution1storeannotationsasselectionandcontextovertransformeddocuments > , the main idea being that annotations would be defined by their > selected text and a context (as opposed to offsets) and would be > identified to be rendered in a document on a serialization of the > transformed XDOM of the document, this way taking into account any macro > rendering, document inclusion, etc. > > WDYT about this solution? > > Also, because the implementation of this, though relatively localized, > comes together with refactor and cleanup of the annotations module > (update everything so that annotations don't store and use offsets > anymore, remove classes & functions which are not needed in this > simplified process), I propose to include this improvement in version > 1.0 of the annotations module (so that we don't cleanup and release what > we know for sure we'll delete) and push the 1.0 version further to mid > to end December. > > here's my +1 for this, > WDYT? > > > Happy coding, > Anca > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
